Dracula

1. what other types of writing did bram stoker do before later becoming a novelist?

2. what powers does count dracula seem to have? what does he look like?

3. what modern theory replaced both the contagionism and miasmatic theories of how diseases are spread?

4. describe transylvania in your own words based on what you have read about it.

5. who or what is the bloofer lady that the newspaper refers to?

LONG ANSWER

1.      While working at the Dublin Castle as a civil servant, Bram Stoker worked for a local newspaper Dublin Evening Mail. He writes reviews of various theater productions in Dublin. Bram Stoker and Sir Henry Irving became friends and the latter gave him a managerial position at his prod company, Lyceum Theater. Part of Stoker’s job is to write letters to Irving. There are times that he’ll write up to 50 letters per day, and because of the influence of the theater he then wrote horror books.

2.      He has various supernatural abilities like intense physical strength that can be equaled to 20 men, being immune to attack (you can only kill him by decapitating him and a wood struck in his heart). Hypnotic prowess and mind control (even animals like wolves and rats), he can also shapeshift into a bat, a rat, and etc. He can also transfer his condition to others by biting them in the throat. Count Dracula is a tall man and clean shaven except for the white moustache. He has curved high bridge thin nose, and blue eyes. His lips are hidden in his moustache, his ears were exceptionally pointed, and his cheeks are thin.

3.      It was replaced by the germ theory of diseases on which microbiologists stated that microbes cause diseases, and multiplies that can be passed on from one person to another person.

4.      In line to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, I can imagine a gothic and eerie feeling when entering Transylvania; with lots of enormous castles and what creeps me out the most is Transylvanian’s strigois!

5.      Lucy Westenra is the bloofer lady. She was transformed into a vampire after the constant attacks of the Count. Bloofer came from the mispronounced word “beautiful” by the children. 

it was the battle of midway (june 4-7 1942), in which was an american decisive victory against the japanese navy. americans lost one aircraft carrier, one destroyer and 150 planes. japan lost 4 aircraft carriers, 1 heavy cruiser and 248 planes. american casualties were 307 and japanese casualties were 3057. japan never recovered from its loses and after midway the americans started getting the upper hand in the pacific war.